Swimming & Diving Begins Season With Convincing Wins Over FAU & FCGU

BOCA RATON, Fla. – The Georgia Tech Swimming & Diving teams began the season with a pair of convincing wins over Florida Atlantic and Florida Gulf Coast Universities Saturday afternoon at the FAU pool. The women’s team defeated FAU 201.50-93.50 and FGCU 177.0-123.0. The men, meanwhile, defeated FAU 204.50-93.50.

“This was a great team effort today,” head coach Stu Wilson said. “Everybody did an excellent job racing and I can already see how their hard training has paid off. This tells me that they are very focused early in the season and I know we will continue to get better as the season progresses.”

In the 200-free, Sarah Broadley (1:52.37) won on the women’s side, while Copeland (1:41.15) was victorious for the men. Hatteberg (58.49) was victorious in the 100-back, while Pucci won the 100-breast in a time of 1:07.36. Malul won the 100-breats for the men in a time of 57.60.

Also victorious for the Yellow Jackets were Ralph Long (1:53.47 in the 200-fly), Kwasnik (24.24 in the 50-free), Robberson (21.07 in the 50-free), Kwasnik (51.75 in the 100-free), Copeland (45.73 in the 100-free), Hatteberg (2:05.29 in the 200-back), Pucci (2:27.08 in the 200-breast) and Matthew Vaughan (2:10.38 in the 200-breast).

To close out the meet, the Tech team of Roberson, Lynch, Johnny Hagaman and Long were victorious in the 400-free relay. They finished in a time of 3:10.36.

Georgia Tech will return to action on October 10 with a dual ACC meet at Clemson.